Dundee United have trolled their next-door neighbours after Dundee blamed climate change for a raft of postponements. (More Football News)
Dundee club secretary Eric Drysdale pointed to the impact of global weather issues after their cinch Premiership encounter with Rangers was postponed on Wednesday night for a second time.
United used their official X account to take a light-hearted dig at their city rivals as they posted photographs of Jim Goodwin and his squad training on their pitch ahead of their cinch Championship encounter with Morton at a sunny Tannadice.
The caption read: 바카라The perfect climate for #MORUTD fine-tuning바카라, and was followed by a sunshine emoji.
The two clubs바카라 grounds are about 200 yards apart.
United recently advertised for a new head groundsperson with the previous incumbent, Paul Murray, set to move to Dundee in the summer, with the Premiership club relying on contractors in recent weeks.
Dundee have had five postponements this season due to a waterlogged pitch and Motherwell manager Stuart Kettlewell claimed parts of the surface were unplayable after his side바카라s win at Dens Park on Saturday, which only went ahead after a second, late inspection.
Speaking after Wednesday바카라s postponement, Drysdale pointed to bad luck with home fixtures coinciding with storms.
And he added on Sky Sports News: 바카라I can understand that people are annoyed and are looking at this as being Dundee바카라s fault.
바카라What I would say is that, from the research that we바카라ve done in the last few days, we note that this year바카라s rainfall is 35 per cent higher than the last 10 years바카라 average.
바카라That shows the effects that climate change is having on it and it appears we need to urgently do more work on the Dens Park pitch and we are absolutely up for doing that in the summer.바카라
Another Dundee-based team had a cheeky dig at the Premiership club, whose ground is sponsored by Scot Foam.
Writing on Facebook ahead of a cup tie at the Riverside playing fields in the city on Wednesday evening, the Tayside Fire Brigade AFC, who play in the Dundee Saturday Morning Football League, said: 바카라Fortunately for us the game is not at the Scot Foam tonight therefore, the game goes ahead.바카라
